In 2011, a ghostly depression, known as "the mitten," appeared on the surface of and ice sheet in Greenland after the ...

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover studied an unusual rock with paper-thin layers that look like a worn book. It's the latest ...

Levels of methane in the atmosphere have soared by record-breaking amounts since 2020, according to new research.

Between low Earth orbit and the moon, there is a region of space measuring 384,400 km (238,855 mi) wide known as Cislunar space. In the coming decades, multiple space agencies will send missions to ...

The idea that aliens may have visited the Earth is becoming increasingly popular ... to come from signals from faraway planets. In a paper accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the ...

The Equal-Area Scalable Earth (EASE) Grids are intended to be versatile formats ... On equal-area maps, a small circle placed anywhere on the map will always cover the same area on the globe, though ...

“Over millions of years, material from this ring gradually fell to Earth, creating the spike in meteorite impacts observed in ...

Evidence suggests Earth had a ring system 466 million years ago, causing a surge in meteorite impacts and possibly ...

A new study co-led by the Smithsonian and the University of Arizona offers the most detailed glimpse yet of how Earth's ...

At times during the past half-billion years, carbon dioxide warmed our planet more than previously thought, according to a ...

Lavas from hotspots - -whether erupting in Hawaii, Samoa or Iceland -- likely originate from a worldwide, uniform reservoir in Earth's mantle, according to an evaluation of volcanic hotspots.

Climate-Change-Triggered 2023 Mega-Landslide Caused Earth to Vibrate for Nine Days Sep. 12, 2024 — A landslide in a remote part of Greenland caused a 200 meter (650 foot) mega-tsunami that ...